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Comparison of document markup languages

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of document markup languages . Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information.

General information

Basic general information about the markup languages: creator, version, etc.

Creator First public release date Latest stable version Editor Viewer
DocBook Norman Walsh  ? 4.4  ?  ? (For printing)
HTML Tim Berners-Lee 1993 4.01 Text editor, HTML editor Web browser
MathML W3C July 1999 2.0 Text editor, TeX converter Web browser, Word processor
RTF Microsoft 1987 1.8 Text editor, Word processor Word processor
TeX Donald Knuth 1978 3.141592 Text editor DVI or PDF converter
XHTML W3C January 26, 2000 1.1 Text editor, HTML editor Web browser
WML WAP Forum  ? 2.0 Text editor Microbrowser
Creator First public release date Latest stable version Editor Viewer

Characteristics

Some characteristics of the markup languages.

Major purpose Based on Markup type Structural markup Presentational markup 1
DocBook Technical document SGML / XML Tag Yes  ?
HTML Hypertext document SGML Tag Yes Yes
MathML Mathematical document XML Tag Yes No
RTF Rich text document Control code Yes Yes
TeX Academic document Control code Yes Yes
XHTML Hypertext document XML Tag Yes No
WML Hypertext document XML Tag Yes Yes
Major purpose Based on Markup type Structural markup Presentational markup

Note (1): Many markup languages have purposely avoided presentational markups. For markup languages based on SGML and XML, CSS is used as a presentation layer.

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